[HPforGrownups] God, I Love Rumors... (WAS: Re: interview)

[Joe Earles]

No: HPFGUIDX 20059


----- Original Message -----
From: <catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk>
To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 6:52 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] God, I Love Rumors... (WAS: Re: interview)


> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Joe Earles" <jearles at b...> wrote:
> > This *IS* Harry Potter for GROWNUPS, isn't it?  Honestly....
> >
> > >And the possibility of JKR revealing it without causing an
> immediate
> > >explosion of "Harry Potter's Godfather Gay?" headlines and a
> > >raft of talk-show debates is even less plausible.
> > >
> > >Amy Z
> >
> >
> > See, this is where someone's "sense of humor" can really make a
> mess of
> > things. Forgive me, but WADR was this little joke *really* worth the
> > controversy?  Was it really worth several threads worth of
> responses and
> > speculations? Is the person who started the rumor trying to ruin
> the Harry
> > Potter experience for the rest of us?  Honestly, the things some
> people do
> > for fun or think are funny... I'm at a loss.  You can call me
> anything you
> > want...say I'm a homophobe, call me intolerant or narrow-minded but
> for the
> > half-second I thought it might be true all my visions of sitting
> with my son
> > reading the books with him - being able to say, "Here, son, is THE
> great
> > fairy tale for your generation," reading along with him with a
> sense of
> > pride, watching him marvel at Harry's world the way his mother and
> I do -
> > just vanished into a funk. I then regained my sense of logic and
> decided
> > that the source of the information was WAY too suspect to take
> seriously.
> > Further investigation proved me corect. Still, I'll be damned if
> I'd ever
> > put something in front of my kid that validates that kind of
> lifestyle and
> > tries to portray it as normal.  The little joke that was played on
> this
> > group was nothing short of sick.  I hope beyond hopes that it will
> end right
> > here, that further less-than-wholesome speculations be kept to the
> > speculators' own selves, thereby quelling any further tarnishment
> of this
> > story, its characters, its reputation or its charm.
> >
> > Flames may be directed to jearles-at-berkshire-dot-rr-dot-com, for
> the sake
> > of keeping it off the list. I'm sure there will be a few....
>
> Well, apart from the fact that it was obvious to most that this was a
> joke... why do you think it was sick?  What is so unwholesome about
> homosexual relationships?

Don't get me started. if you really want an answer, and I don't think you
really do, e-mail me. I'd love to give you my uncensored and unabashed
opinion.

Instead of making comments which do come
> across as being stongly homophobic,

There's that word again..."homophobic." I'm in no way frightened of
homosexuals, therefore I cannot be perceived as homophobic. The political
correctness crowd will have to come up with something that is a bit less of
a misnomer if you ever expect me to admit to being what you perceive me to
be.

> couldn't you either keep your
> opinions to yourself

Couldn't Susan?

> or contact one of the moderators if you feel a
> particular post is out of line?
>
> Catherine

What difference would it make? Clearly the poster-in-question has been given
free reign to say whatever she wants so whining to a moderator wouldn't seem
to be all that productive.  Besides, I grew out of my tattling stage about
the same time I graduated from diapers to underwear and quit sucking my
thumb.  That was longer ago than I like to think about.....